Big BandgapProduct News 11/26/2003 Post a commentAre there any drivers for bringing network speeds beyond 10 Gbits/s, in the public network or enterprise LANs and clusters?

High-Tech Engineering Careers Need Education and Your HelpProduct News 11/26/2003 Post a commentTo be economically successful we must supply a work force that meets the needs of a high-tech society. Education experts say they are struggling to entice students into preparing for high-tech careers as many public schools fail to spur children's interest in engineering and science.

32-bit Secure Processor for Smart Card ICsProduct News 11/26/2003 Post a commentMurray Slovick looks at STMicro's new ST22FJ1M, a 32-bit smart card processor with 1Mb of embedded Flash memory. The chip's memory capacity and security features should open up a host of new opportunities in the mobile communications, pay-per-view TV, IT security and Identification markets.

Multichannel DAC Family supports DVDs and super audio CDsProduct News 11/25/2003 Post a commentWolfson Microelectronics introduced a family of low-cost, power-efficient multi-channel digital analog converters. Members include five 6-channel and a 2-channel DAC. They offer power-saving operation at a low cost and provide performance for the next generation of DVD and super audio compact disc players.

Cable assemblies offer design flexibilityProduct News 11/25/2003 Post a commentMeeting hot-swap and cable I/O applications, the expansion of Tyco Electronics' MULTI-BEAM XL line of modular power/signal connectors offers customers the design flexibility to connect hot-swap power supplies to other components of a power distribution system, without the use of a power distribution board.

Reusable architecture is DSP frameworkProduct News 11/24/2003 Post a commentOver a decade ago, fixed-point digital signal processor implementations became available, enabling easy software programmability for different DSP algorithms. Those early DSPs offered limited processing capabilities that could have been used for specific uncomplicated tasks such as voice compression and decompression. Over the years, DSP usage has spread to other applications including audio decoding and encoding, signal modulators and equalizers, different video applications, and advanced vocod

First AE-5 Series 32-Bit Smart Card MCU from RenesasProduct News 11/24/2003 Post a commentThe AE57C is the first product from Renesas Technology Corp.'s AE-5 Series of 32-bit smart card microcontrollers. According to the company it offers approximately four times the , but offers approximately four times the processing performance of the AE-4 Series as it executes one instruction per cycle instead of one instruction in two cycles. The chip comes with 132 KB of EEPROM, the largest memory capacity of any of the company's smart card microcontrollers.

Modular units speed DSP/ARM solutionsProduct News 11/24/2003 Post a commentLSI Logic Corp.'s newest ZSP processor core module boards are aimed at SoC and platform developers that want to integrate a ZSP500 or ZSP400 based subsystem with any available ARM processor core module. These board-level solutions are said to provide for seamless integration and a rapid prototyping environment for shortened time-to-market for voice, multimedia or wireless applications.

2-mm connector delivers high bandwidthProduct News 11/24/2003 Post a commentDesigned for 100-ohm differential pair signal transmission, ITT Industries, Cannon's new Tempus-HS 4000 2-mm backplane connector delivers increased bandwidth and reduced crosstalk for high-speed systems such as Serial ATA II. Produced under license from FCI, the new series is a second-source drop-in replacement for FCI's HS4000 products.

Connectors offer safetyProduct News 11/24/2003 Post a commentDesigned for applications where user access to an energized connector is not otherwise protected, the new Powerpole 15/45 Finger Proof connectors from Anderson Power Products (APP) minimize potential contact with live contacts by preventing finger access when the connector is unmated. The connectors meet the accessibility protection requirements of IEC IP20 and UL1977 sec 10.2.

Film cap offers wide capacitance valuesProduct News 11/24/2003 Post a commentA new series of compact, lead (Pb)-free electromagnetic interference suppression film capacitors from Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. combines a wide range of capacitance values with pitch sizes down to 7.5 mm.

Choosing the Best Microcontrol Solution Still Requires FlexiblityProduct News 11/22/2003 Post a commentAs embedded applications become more complex and offer more functions, microcontrollers makers need to
keep up with the changes. In the past, the answer has been to integrate as much
as possible on to a single chip and drive the process technology smaller to keep
cost under control. But as Microchip Technology's Fanie Duvenhage explains, this philosophy does not always provide the best
and most cost-effective solution for embedded control.

Intermediate bus converters roll on 8-, 9.6-volt routesProduct News 11/22/2003 Post a commentCelestica Inc. touts its IBC series as the first off-the-shelf DC/DC converters to provide 8- and 9.6-volt intermediate bus voltages for computing and telecom applications. Working from a 36-55 volt input, the IBC series provides 4:1, 5:1, and 6:1 step-downs, thus establishing 12, 9.6, and 8-volt outputs, respectively.

Modular power system steps up to the central officeProduct News 11/22/2003 Post a commentValere Power's new Modular DC Power System, the first product of its kind for the company, is targeted at central office and wireless telecom applications that require from 800 to 20,000 amps. Leveraging the company's patented high-efficiency power conversion technology that, overall, delivers systems that are half the size of typical installations and cut heat dissipation by one-third, the Modular DC Power System can be configured to offer 800 amps in half a telecom rack.